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Posted on 08/02/2015 6:32:38 PM PDT by jimbo123
House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) had been planning to call up on the House floor last week a measure from Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) that would have removed him as Speaker of the House if it succeeded—intending to embarrass Meadows—but abandoned the plan after his entire leadership structure learned that they did not have the votes to re-elect him as Speaker before the August recess.
“[House Majority Leader Kevin] McCarthy was making phone calls—he was whipping it—and so was [House Majority Whip] Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA),” a senior conservative movement leader who’s had many personal and direct discussions with various House GOP members about this told Breitbart News in an interview last week.
“I know members personally who were called by Steve Scalise. So they had the entire leadership whip team frantically making phone calls to members to whip the vote because they wanted to attempt to embarrass Meadows and call the vote [on Wednesday last week] so it’s not hanging over Boehner’s head.
“What they found out was the exact opposite. They found out bad things would happen, that literally they would be calling the vote without knowing what would happen. Therefore, they did not call the vote and now they have this issue hanging over John Boehner’s head for the next five weeks.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Boner needs to recall The House immediately to slap Bammy over the latest EPA issued legislation.
Drunk and a crybaby. Too bad Butler County is mostly morons. They vote a GOP ticket all right, but probably 10% of them actually know why.
Well,don’t cry about it Johnny.
Him being booted from leadership would be the best news I’ve heard since Republicans took the majority.
No pun intended, kick his ass OUT!!
Good to hear, although who knows if it will actually come to anything?
Too bad they didn’t have their heads screwed on when they voted for the house leadership in the first place.
Rather have Pelosi as speaker. The devil you know....
I have to say, I think we can thank Donald Trump for this Whip straw poll on Boehner.
Trump has laid out a little brass, and emboldened even the House moderates to vote the truth— that Boehner is vanilla at best, and an Obama sycophant at worst. What ever he is, he’s not one of us.
Uh-oh for Boehner.
Sailing the Crier out like a syrup bucket lid will put Conservative into the McTurtle.
Heh heh heh.
The conservative Rs should just caucus without current leadership, and set up a game plan for a quick coup in five weeks.
Dump Boehner!
Time for boner to step down!!!
‘The Trump affect’
Maybe he will drink himself to death during the next five weeks. How much can his liver take?
Barry’s personal port-o-john should resign.
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